Levent Yilmaz

Ph.D. Virginia Tech 

              

Associate Professor, Computer Science & Software Engineering

Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering 

College of Engineering

Auburn University

Phone: (334) 844-6343

Fax: (334) 844-6329

Email: yilmaz@auburn.edu 

http://auburn.academia.edu/LeventYilmaz

 

 

I am a faculty member of Computer Science and Software Engineering and  hold a joint appointment with the Industrial & Systems Engineering department in the College of Engineering at Auburn University.  I received my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Tech. I am a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, Society for Computer Simulation International (SCS - http://www.scs.org), and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.

 

Research Interests

  • Modeling and Computer Simulation

    • Agent-Directed Simulation: Agent Simulation, Agent-Based Simulation, Agent-Supported Simulation

    • Advancement of the theory and methodology via novel  formalisms, e.g., generative parallax multisimulation, autonomic introspective simulation, and their use as computational tools and models for

      • scientific discovery and theory formation and

      • robust decision support systems

  • Complex Adaptive Systems

    • explorations in socio-technical, cognitive, cultural systems ---  e.g., systems models of collective creativity, dynamics of open science, innovation, and collaborative knowledge creation, simulation of scientific discovery processes, social simulation of projects, organizations, communities, and processes.

  • Science & Technology Studies

Quote "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."  - E. W. Dijkstra

 

Selected Recent Funding

  • Dynamics of Knowledge Creation, Creativity, and Open Innovation in Cyber-Enabled Scientific Commons (with Bryan Edwards, Co-PI). Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. Duration: 10/2008 - 10/2011. $315,029.

  • The Synergy of Conflict and Collective Creativity in Open Innovation Socio-technical Systems. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. Duration: 8/2007 - 8/2008. $76,450.

  • Exploratory Multisimulation with Multiresolution, Multistage Multimodels. Funding Agency: Air Force Research Laboratory. Duration: 07/2006 - 6/2007. $121,647

Selected Professional Activities
  • Editor-in-Chief of the Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (2008 - present).

  • Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling  (2004 - present).

  • Associate Editor of the International Journal of Engineering Education  (2006 - present).

  • Associate Editor of the Simulation & Gaming Journal (2008 - present).

  • Member of the Board of Directors of Society for Modeling and Simulation International (2006 - 2008, 2009 - 2011)

  • General Chair (with Osman Balci, Maarten Sierhuis, and Xiaolin Hu) of the 2009 Summer Computer Simulation Conference

  • Founding Organizer and General Co-chair (with Greg Madey, Maarten Sierhuis, Tuncer Oren, and Yu Zhang) of the annual Agent-directed Simulation Symposium series.

  • Member of the International Program Committees of SCSC'05-06, CMS'05, MSO'05-06, IADIS'05, DEVS'06, MSV'06, AIS-CMS'07, WMSCI'07, ASIAMS'07, ECM_MAI'07, ESAS'07,  MSV'07, PLAC'07,WMSCI'08, CIS'08, SW'08, and others.

Selected Publications

 

Yilmaz L. and T. Ören (Eds.) (2009). Agent-Directed Simulation and Systems Engineering Wiley (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering)

 

  • Guangyu Zou and Levent Yilmaz (2010). "Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in Global Participatory Science Communities: Open Innovation Communities from a Network Perspective," forthcoming in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.

  • Levent Yilmaz (2010). "Emergence, Innovation, and Resilience of Collaboration Structures in Virtual Open Science and Innovation Collaboratories," forthcoming in the Proceedings of the SIMUL2010: International Conference on Advances in System Simulation. August 22-27. Nice, France.

  • Levent Yilmaz and Tuncer Ören(2009). "Rethinking M&S to Enhance Creativity and Computational Discovery,"  in Proceedings of the 2009 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, pp.66-74. July 13-16. Istanbul, Turkey

  • Bradley Mitchell and Levent Yilmaz (2008) "Symbiotic Adaptive Multisimulation: An Autonomic Simulation Framework for Real-time Decision Support under Uncertainty", ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, vol.19, no.1, December 2008.

  • Levent Yilmaz (2009). "An Agent Simulation Study on Conflict, Community Climate, and Innovation in Open Source Communities,"  International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes, vol.1, no. 4, pp.1-25.

  • Levent  Yilmaz (2009). "On the Synergy of Conflict and Collective Creativity in Open Innovation Socio-technical Ecologies,"  in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, pp.502-508. August 29-31, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Levent Yilmaz, Paul Davis, Paul A. Fishwick, Xiaolin Hu, John A. Miller, Maria Hybinette, Tuncer I. Ören, Paul Reynolds, Hessam Sarjoughian, and Andreas Tolk (2008). "What Makes Good Research in Modeling and Simulation (M&S): Sustaining the Growth and Vitality of the M&S Discipline," In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ACM Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 671-676.

  • Bernard Zeigler, Alex Muzy, and Levent Yilmaz (2008). "Artificial Intelligence in Modeling and Simulation" In Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, Editor-in-Chief, Robert A. Meyers, Springer, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.

  • Phillips J. and L. Yilmaz L.(2007). "Team-RUP: Agent-based Simulation of Team Behavior in Software Development Organizations," International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 170-179.

  • Levent Yilmaz (2007). "A Strategy for Improving Dynamic Composability: Ontology-driven Introspective Agent Architectures," Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 1-9.

  • Levent Yilmaz and Jared Phillips (2007). "The Impact of Turbulence on the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Software Development Teams in Small Organizations," Software Process: Improvement and Practice Journal, vol 12., no.3, pp. 247-265. May/June 2007.

  • Levent Yilmaz, Alvin Lim, Simon Bowen, and  Tuncer Oren (2007). "Requirements and Design Principles for Multisimulation with Multiresolution, Multistage Models," in Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 823-832.

  • Levent Yilmaz and  Tuncer Oren (2006). "Simulation-Based Problem Solving Environments for Conflict Studies," Simulation & Gaming Journal. vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 534-556.

  • Levent Yilmaz (2004) "On the Need for Contextualized Introspective Simulation Models to Improve Reuse and Composability of Defense Simulations", Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp 135-145, 2004.

  • Levent Yilmaz (2004) "Verifying Collaborative Behavior in Component-Based DEVS Models", Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International. Special Issue: Component-Based Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 80, No. 7, pp 399-415, Jul. 2004.

  • Tuncer Örenand Levent Yilmaz (2004). "Behavioral Anticipation in Agent Simulation", Proceedings of IEEE/ACM WSC 2004 - Winter Simulation Conference, pp 801-806, Dec. 2004.

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